People Can Fly opens studios in UK and Poland

Polish developer People Can Fly has opened two new studios, in Newcastle, UK and Poland.

As announced in a blogpost, the developer, best known for 2011’s BulletStorm and its work on the Gears of War franchise, is working on: “A new IP, a AAA shooter developed alongside Square Enix.” The new studios in Newcastle and the Polish city Rzeszów bring the company’s head-count to 150.

According to the blogpost, People Can Fly Newcastle includes developers who worked for Ubisoft – Ubisoft Reflections is based in Newcastle, and Sumo Digital has a studio there. The Rzeszów studio includes: “Around 30 developers that worked on Sniper: Ghost Warrior franchise.”

People Can Fly’s CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski said: “Since People Can Fly became an independent studio again, our ambition has been to build a team of talented and experienced developers that can develop the best AAA games. We decided in 2017 to open a new studio in Newcastle, the UK, to attract not only local talent, but also to attract the best developers within the UK. We want this team to grow to 20-30 developers within the next 12-18 months.”

Hopefully, the new IP on which People Can Fly’s now 150-strong team is working will make its first appearance at Square Enix’s press conference at E3 2018. As ever, we’ll keep you posted.

Steve Boxer has been writing about videogames since the early 1990s. His first console was an Atari VCS, and he misspent most of his youth in the 1980s in the arcades. As well as for Green Man Gaming, he can be found writing for The Guardian, Empire, TechRadar and Pocket-Lint. He’s currently having trouble deciding whether his favourite console is his Xbox One X or his Switch, and plays a wide range of games, but especially RPGs (he loves a good JRPG) action-adventure titles, shooters of all descriptions and driving games. Follow him here.